by Kevin Bauder | Aug 10, 2017 | Apologetics, Evangelicalism, Liberalism
He’s not a fundamentalist. But He almost sounds like one. What is the slippery slope? It is the unstoppable descent into liberalism and unbelief that begins when the authority of Scripture is compromised out of cultural accommodation. The slope is slippery...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 25, 2017 | Anthropology, Apologetics, Argumentation and Debate, Culture, Liberalism, Pastoral Theology, Politics, Social Issues, Theological News
As usual, what Mohler writes is worth reading. His purpose is not to trounce Peterson. In fact, he incorporates a definite pastoral twist. . . . [Y]ou had better have your answer ready. Evasive, wandering, and inconclusive answers will be seen for what they are. Those...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 6, 2017 | How the Left Thinks, Liberalism, Secularism
Spencer Grady-Pawl, writing for the American Humanist Association, offers a secularist perspective on the recent Southern Baptist Convention. Incidentally, “Secular Humanism” is an oxymoron. “Christian Humanist,” however, is not.
by Kevin Bauder | Jun 30, 2017 | Islam, Liberalism, Religious Freedom, Social Issues, Tolerance
Writing for the Witherspoon Institute, Ismail Royer responds to Bernie Sanders’s attempt to impose a religious test for public office: such people “are not protecting religious pluralism but are rather demanding that all public servants be...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 31, 2017 | America, Education, How the Left Thinks, Learned Societies, Liberalism
The board of the American Academy of Religion released the following statement on Monday. The statement does not reflect the views of the membership. Statement Issued by the Board of the American Academy of Religion on U.S. Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 23, 2017 | Ethics, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism
Sojourners worries that “Peaceful Protests Could Be Criminalized In Several U.S. States.” The protests they’re talking about are mobs that block streets and highways. That behavior is not protest, it is extortion. Since one of the states is...